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"UNDER A NUCLEAR CLOUD"
SEMEY, KAZAKHSTAN, NOVEMBER 19 Berik Syzdykov, 29, is led outside by his mother in Semey, Kazakhstan Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Berik is one of thousands of Kazakhs born deformed due to radiation from Soviet atomic testing in the Polygon during the Cold War.
